Sekirov Dictionary

limit

/ˈlɪm.ɪt/

noun13

  1. a set point or amount that someone or something is not allowed to go past
  2. Fixed limit.
  3. A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
  4. A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
  5. Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
  6. The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
  7. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
  8. (informal) A person who is exasperating, intolerable, astounding, etc.
  9. A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
  10. Ellipsis of harmonic limit.
  11. The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
  12. (no longer used) The space or thing defined by limits.
  13. (no longer used) That terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.

verb3

  1. To restrict; to circumscribe; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries.
  2. To have a limit in a particular set.
  3. (no longer used) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

adjective1

  1. Being a fixed limit game.
forms

limited · limitating · limiting · limiteth · limits · limitest

Phrases with limit

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